Building construction.



JJLALLY. BUILDING CONSTRUCTION. APPLICATION man APR. 18. 191i.

Patentd Mar. 12, 1918.

I a w nuinnme consriwcrron.

specification of Letters Patent. Patented Mar, 12, 1918,

Application filed. April 18, 1917. Serial No. 162,948.

To all whom it may concern: v Be it known that 1, JOHN LALLY, a citithe head as shown at 12 or the two methods may be combined as shown.

zen of the United States, and resident of The plate 4; is .anchored to the upper Boston, in the county of Sufiolk and State column 5 by means of anchor bolts 13 runof Massachusetts, have invented certain new ning through it and embedded in the conand useful Improvements in Building Concrete filling thereof. The top column 5 structions, of which the following is a speci- 18 also anchored to the T-beams 9 by the fi ati bolts 14: so that one column is tied to the My invention relates to improved .building other making a continuous shaft of metal construction of the reinforced concrete type without a break and all connections are and it is my object to produce a column and made inside the floor Where they do not enfioor structure which will be fireproof, have croach on the floor space. great strength, light weight, simple design, The structure is finally completely em: easy of erection and occupy much less space bedded in concrete as shown in Fig. l which than the older forms of construction with concrete is integral with the floor concrete the joints between superimposed columns making a reinforced monolith construction. made inside the floors so that there is no By this design and construction I obtain reduction in floor area over that occupied a strong, light and fireproof building which by the cross-section of the column itself. may be of several stories in height and re- Tn the drawings Figure 1 is a View, partly duce the space occupied by the crown to in section, of my improved structure; Fig. 2 such an extent that a crown 12 inches square a top view of a round crown frame and Fig. will have the strength and carrying ca- 3 a top Viewof a square crown frame. pacity of one 24 inches square of the older Y My construction comprises a filled tubuconstruction. lar column 1 extending from a base plate I claim 2 to the upper part of the floor 3 with a 1. Building construction comprising a plate 4 on the lower end of the superim- I hollow column, a plastic filling therein, said posed column 5 to make the connection becolumn being slotted intermediate of its tween the two columns 1 and 5. ends and at its upper edge, brackets in the This column 1 is filled with concrete 6 as intermediate slots extending into the plastic well as being surrounded with it. filling, T-beams in the upper slots, struts ex- A bracket 7 extends through a slot in tending-from the brackets to the IT-beams, the upper part of the column 1 into the a frame surrounding the outer ends of the concrete filling as shown in Fig. 1. A strut T-beams and secured thereto and .a plastic 8 extends from the bracket 7 to a cross T- covering for the whole. beam 9 with its web lying in slots cut in the 2. Building construction comprising a upper edge of the column 1. hollow column, a plastic filling therein, said There are a plurality of these brackets column being slotted intermediate of its 7 struts 8 and T-beams 9 as indicated in ends and at its upper edge, brackets in the Figs. 2 and 3 and the T-beams are anchored intermediate slots extending into the plastic by countersunk bolts 10 set in the flange filling, T-beams in the upper slots, struts and extending into the concrete filling in the extending from the brackets to the T-beams,

column .1. The T-beams are preferably a frame surrounding the outer ends of the welded together at their junction to make T-beams and secured thereto, carrying bars a solid, one piece top for the crown. secured to the crown thus formed and a An outer frame 11 for the crown may plastic covering for the whole extending be secured to the outer ends of the struts into and forming part of the'fioor of the 8 and may be circular as shown in Fig. 2 building.

or square as shown in Fig. 3, or any other desired form, and to which the ends of the carrying bars 12 for the floor may be attached or the carrying bars may be run over 3. Building construction comprising a hollow column, a plastic filling therein, said column being. slotted intermediate of its ends and at its upper edge, brackets in the Q. t v t e intermediate slots extending into the plastic Signed at Boston, in the county of Suffilling T-beams in the upper slots, means. for folk and State of Massachusetts this 9th 10 securmg the T beazns together at gheir fcomv day of April, A. 1D. 1917. men meeting poin s, struts exten in rom. 5 the bmcketsto the 'T-beems e fren le sun-v JQHN A 3 rounding the 'outer ends 0% the T-beems Witmeesesr' end secured. thereteene e ples'tiecevering JAMEs E. HEARNE,

for the whole, Jeeezm A, HENLEY. 

